Baseline Predictors of Mortality among Predominantly Rural-Dwelling End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Chronic Dialysis Therapies in Limpopo, South Africa

• Ramon A. Tamayo Isla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramon A. Tamayo Isla, Oluwatoyin I. Ameh

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Polokwane Kidney and Dialysis Centre, Pietersburg Provincial Hospital and the University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa

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• Oluwatoyin I. Ameh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramon A. Tamayo Isla, Oluwatoyin I. Ameh

  * E-mail: amethystpj2@yahoo.co.uk

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-0432

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• Darlington Mapiye,

  Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute/Medical Research Council of South Africa Bioinformatics Unit, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Charles R. Swanepoel,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Aminu K. Bello,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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• Andrew R. Ratsela,

  Affiliation Polokwane Kidney and Dialysis Centre, Pietersburg Provincial Hospital and the University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa

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• Ikechi G. Okpechi

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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